officialLanguage

P236
predicate

Indicates that a particular language has been formally designated by an authority as the official language used for government, legal, or administrative purposes in a given jurisdiction.

All labels observed (178)

Label Occurrences
officialLanguage canonical 23,795
hasOfficialLanguage 16,380
languageOfAdministration 2,109

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: officialLanguage
Generated description
Indicates that a particular language has been formally designated by an authority as the official language used for government, legal, or administrative purposes in a given jurisdiction.

Sample triples (46,259)

Subject Object
Pollença Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of the State of Jalisco Spanish
Dangme language none (not a national official language of Ghana) via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageIn"
Sal Creole Cape Verde (where Cape Verdean Creole is widely used alongside Portuguese) via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageContext"
Thessalon, Ontario English
Navojoa Spanish
Quimper French
Estância Portuguese language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Portuguese
Institute of Museum and Library Services English
Mayor of Amsterdam Dutch
Kourou French
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni French
Guiana Amazonian Park French
Legislative Assembly of Tonga Tongan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Legislative Assembly of Tonga English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Distrito Nacional Spanish
La Nueva Isabela Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Colonial Zone Spanish
Rumelia Eyalet Ottoman Turkish
Wāli of Sudan Ottoman Turkish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Wāli of Sudan Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Estonians Estonia via predicate surface "officialLanguageIn"
Luterbach German
Gadchiroli Marathi language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Marathi
Government of Aragon Spanish
Government of Aragon Aragonese language
surface form: Aragonese
Government of Aragon Catalan
Berrigan Shire English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Compostela Spanish
Del Nayar Spanish
Jala Spanish
Rosamorada Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bahía de Banderas municipality Spanish
NR
surface form: Nordic Council
Danish
NR
surface form: Nordic Council
Norwegian
NR
surface form: Nordic Council
Swedish
NR
surface form: Nordic Council
Icelandic
NR
surface form: Nordic Council
Finnish
Sasang-gu Office Korean via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Sampang Regency Indonesian
Herstal French
Santa Cruz Department Spanish
Amravati Marathi language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Marathi
Montreal region French
San Sebastián
surface form: San Sebastián (San Marcos, Guatemala)
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United States and Mexico
surface form: United States
English
United States and Mexico
surface form: Mexico
Spanish
Tesorería General de la República Spanish
Anii language none via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageOf"
Lelemi language none via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageOf"